"We're helping to steward humanity's global movement to deep space," said Jim Free, NASA's associate administrator for the Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, which managed the objectives team, and is ultimately responsible for the agency's Moon to Mars architecture. NASA held consultation workshops with both industry and international partners to help refine and discuss the objectives and identify any gaps. NASA received more than 5,000 inputs and as a result, many of the ideas were modified and some new objectives were added. The draft, high-level objectives were released to the public and the NASA workforce in May 2022 with a request for comments by June. The objectives enable NASA to explore synergies between the United States and other nations' objectives for lunar and Martian exploration, including potential opportunities for collaboration. In November 2021, NASA senior leaders began working on the objectives in coordination with an Agency Cross-Directorate Federated Board, whose purpose is to ensure NASA's focus is integrated with common strategic goals and direction across the agency's mission directorates. These missions set up a long-term presence to inform future exploration of farther destinations, including Mars. With its Artemis I mission now on the launchpad, the agency plans to return humans to the Moon and establish a cadence of missions including at the lunar south polar region. Under Artemis, NASA has set a vision to explore more of the Moon than ever before.
"These objectives are both practical and aspirational, and we were gratified by the thoughtful contributions of our workforce, industry, and international partners who will join us in shaping our future together."
"We need a roadmap with staying power, and through a collaborative process, we've identified a core set of defined objectives to achieve our exploration goals with our partners," said NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy. The agency also added a set of recurring tenets to address common themes across objectives.
They cover four broad areas: science transportation and habitation lunar and Martian infrastructure and operations. The resulting revised 63 final objectives reflect a matured strategy for NASA and its partners to develop a blueprint for sustained human presence and exploration throughout the solar system. Starting with 50 draft objectives developed by agency leaders across our mission directorates earlier this year, NASA invited its workforce, the public, industry, and the agency's international partners to provide feedback, and followed up with two workshops with industry and international partners to engage in further discussions.
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